Francisco De Assis

Category: fiction/documentary
(Color-NTSC / 87 min. / Brazil - 2011)

Synopsis: Francisco de Assis conveys Chico's life lesson.  Former dredge worker of a coal industry company, he became blind at age 23, after being accidentally hit with lead pellets from a shotgun fired by a friend, while hunting.  Chico learned how to deal with the visual impairment and became a masseur, a bocce champion in his state, a motivational speaker, a composer and a country music singer.  With good humor and always willing to tell a story about blind people, Chico gave up his disability benefits and started to face the new activities working 16 hours per day.  He overcame all the prejudices the visually impaired people go through, believing that life can be seen with other eyes.

Production: Goulart Filmes and Avanturi Productions
Executive producers: Marcelo Nigri and Nayglon Goulart
Producers: Marcelo Nigri, Ivy Goulart and Nayglon Goulart
Director and screenwriter: Ivy Goulart
Photography: Ivy Goulart
Editing: Ivy Goulart
Editing assistant: Guilherme Greca
Sound operator: Nayglon Goulart
Re-recording mixer: Tim Starnes
Graphic effects: Cláudio Bitencourt
Acting coach: Nichele Antunes
Cast: Adriano Rafael Domingos, Rick Alison Domingos, Alisson de Oliveira Cardoso, Diana Dutra, Orlando Francisco Domingos Filho, Soraia Schug, Ivy Goulart, Renato Gama, Rodrigo Okuno, Marcia Marques Costa, Marlon Pires Leandro and Clara Jacinto
Interviewees: Francisco de Assis Domingos, Albertina Pessoa Domingos, Luiz Goulart, Tereza Medeiros, Marcelo Medeiros, Gisele Domingos Vivas, Valnei Teixeira and Arcelino Mendonça
Music: Aleksandar Simić, Francisco de Assis Domingos, Renato Borghetti (Guinha Ramires) and Tonico & Tinoco (Chiquinho e Zé Tapera) 
Art designer: Luciane Nard
Still photos: Ulisses Job and Nayglon Goulart
Translation: Marcelo Nigri and Robert McCullough

Pre-openings

• Community Center of Urussanga (Santa Catarina, Brazil, May 2009);
• Maximiliano Gaidzinski Institute Auditorium (Santa Catarina, Brazil, May 2009).

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